Kitchen Cabinet - Bronwyn Bishop

Kitchen Cabinet - Series 2, Episode 02 - Bronwyn Bishop

Episode Synopsis

Episode 02 - Bronwyn BishopAfter cooking up a storm with some of Australia's most surprising politicians in the first series of Kitchen Cabinet, Annabel Crabb is coming back to ABC2 with a second helping.

Food and politics are never separated for long. The best plots are hatched over lunch, the best stories told over dinner. In Canberra, dinner bookings are an anthropological study in themselves. If you go for a walk around Manuka or Kingston during a sitting week, you see a graphic illustration of the capital's power shifts. Why is that minister sharing noodles with that factional opponent? What is that disenfranchised bunch of back benchers plotting? The best way to get to know a politician is to break bread with one.

Each week our veteran political journalist invites herself over to the home of a sitting member offering dessert in exchange for dinner.

Senior Liberal figure and once-touted future Prime Minister Bronwyn Bishop breaks out the good silver to host Annabel over a mushroom lasagne with a roma tomato, bocconcini and basil leaf salad. During lunch we learn what really happened during some of the Liberal Party's most famous leadership tussles, the influence of Margaret Thatcher, her thoughts on feminism, and the G-Force joy Bishop experienced when as Minister for Defence Procurement she flew a jet fighter. In a potentially Walkley Award-winning moment Annabel ventures where no journalist has gone before, exposing the mystery behind the famous Bronnie-do.